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IMB’s Chitwood visits with Ukraine refugees in Poland

IMB’s Chitwood visits with Ukraine refugees in Poland

March 3, 2022

POLAND (BP) — Paul Chitwood, president of Southern Baptists’ International Mission Board (IMB) in Richmond, Va., has been in Eastern Europe this week visiting with…

Bill that would protect abortion through federal law fails in Senate

(Photo credit: Rena Schild/Shutterstock.com)

Bill that would protect abortion through federal law fails in Senate

March 3, 2022

SEND Relief Tour wraps Memphis event; heads to Meridian

SERVING CHRIST — Hundreds of volunteers of all ages packed 125,000 meals at the SEND Relief ministry center in Memphis as a part of the SEND Relief Serve Tour stop in the city. The next Serve Tour destination is Meridian on March 18-19. (Photo credit: NAMB)

SEND Relief Tour wraps Memphis event; heads to Meridian

March 2, 2022

SBC president Litton to decline second term

SBC PRESIDENT – Ed Litton, senior pastor of Redemption Church in Saraland, Ala., and president of the Southern Baptist Convention, sits for a Baptist Press interview in July of last year after he was elected to a first term. Litton announced March 1 that he will not run for a second term. (Photo credit: Baptist Press)

SBC president Litton to decline second term

March 2, 2022

Southern Baptists gear up for major Ukraine relief effort

CAPITAL UNDER ATTACK — Thousands of people take shelter in a subway station during a bombing February 25 in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Photo credit: Drop of Light/Shutterstock.com)

Southern Baptists gear up for major Ukraine relief effort

March 1, 2022

Clergy Act advances from House
Ways and Means Committee
DALLAS – On Dec. 10 the House Ways and Means Committee advanced the Clergy Act, H.R. 227, in a bipartisan, unanimous vote. The Clergy Act would provide ministers who opted out of Social Security a one-time window to opt back in. The bipartisan legislation was reintroduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by California Congressmen Vince Fong and Mike Thompson, and has gained the support of several co-sponsors. The legislation is supported by GuideStone Financial Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention and other leaders from a wide variety of large and historic denominational benefit boards. In a news release issued by Rep. Fong’s office, GuideStone President Hance Dilbeck expressed gratitude to Fong for his leadership. The Clergy Act would create a two-year window beginning in 2029 that would allow eligible ministers who have opted out of Social Security to revoke their exemption and begin contributing. Ministers must still meet the standard 10-year contribution requirement to earn full retired-worker benefits, receiving benefits proportional to their contributions.